Neuroticism, major depression and gender: A population-based twin study

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 719-728

  Fanous, A ^a,b,c   Gardner, C O ^a,b   Prescott, C A ^a,b   Cancro, R ^a,b   Kendler, K S ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Box 980126 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC TRAIT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0036012856     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329170200541X     Document Type: Article

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